Nearest Communities to Flat Rock,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Flat Rock, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Flat Rock:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Flat Rock.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Flat Rock is located in Upton County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Upton County: Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Midland & Reagan.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Flat Rock. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Upton County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Flat Rock (which is Upton County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Flat Rock
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Upton County (where Flat Rock resides)
- County Seat for Upton: Rankin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Upton County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Upton County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Upton County
- Nearest Communities to Flat Rock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Flat Rock.
- Rankin
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin
- Rankin is located in Upton County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 841 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rankin <3>
- Sevenmile Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
- Sevenmile Corner is located in Upton County
- McCamey
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCamey
- McCamey is located in Upton County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,036 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCamey <3>
- Midkiff
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Midkiff have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midkiff
- Midkiff is located in Upton County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Midkiff <3>
- Pecos County
- County Website: www.co.pecos.tx.us/
- County Seat for Pecos: Fort Stockton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- Nearest Communities to Flat Rock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Flat Rock.
- Iraan
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iraan have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iraan
- Iraan is located in Pecos County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,221 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Iraan <3>
- Adobe Crossing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Adobe Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adobe Crossing
- Adobe Crossing is located in Pecos County
- Reagan County
- County Seat for Reagan: Big Lake
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Reagan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Reagan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Reagan County
- Nearest Communities to Flat Rock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Flat Rock.
- Texon ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east) - Santa Rita
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Rita have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rita
- Santa Rita is located in Reagan County
- Best ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Best
- Best is located in Reagan County
- Four Corner Windmill
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Four Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corner Windmill
- Four Corner Windmill is located in Reagan County
- Stiles ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast) - Big Lake
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Lake
- Big Lake is located in Reagan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,348 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big Lake <3>
- Crossroads
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crossroads have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossroads
- Crossroads is located in Reagan County
- Witco
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Flat Rock) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Flat Rock. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.2260, Longitude: -101.8493 In this case, the coordinates for Flat Rock have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |